Two things:

Post #380,553 by CRConrad 9/13/13 4:35:03 AM Reply	Two things: A) The market for sand may not be so great, but fundamentalism seems to be selling quite well. B) That spanking is only because even the colonies are more and more just shrugging at the whole sport. -- Christian R. Conrad Same old username (as above), but now on iki.fi (Yeah, yeah, it redirects to the same old GMail... But just in case I ever want to change.)
Post #380,557 by pwhysall 9/13/13 7:01:38 AM Reply	On B) notsureifserious.gif You certainly don't have much contact with saffas, injuns, windians or convicts if you think that's the case.
Post #380,573 by CRConrad 9/13/13 9:36:37 AM Reply	No, of course I don't know. Because, after all... ...who gives a fuck? -- Christian R. Conrad Same old username (as above), but now on iki.fi (Yeah, yeah, it redirects to the same old GMail... But just in case I ever want to change.)
Post #380,583 by pwhysall 9/13/13 10:23:12 AM Reply	Poms, saffas, windians, injuns and convicts, that's who. Even the jockanesians and oirish are trying to get in on it.
Post #380,602 by malraux 9/13/13 5:26:18 PM Reply	Cricket: CalvinBall with big sticks and sweaters. Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
Post #380,607 by CRConrad 9/13/13 6:17:01 PM Reply	'Xackly. Almost as weird as, say, baseball.
Post #380,608 by Another Scott 9/13/13 6:18:39 PM Reply	:-) I've tried to watch some matches occasionally, and I've skimmed through the rules on Wikipedia, but its very very strange. The bowler can't/must have a bend in his arm? WTF? And there was some famous bowler who had a birth defect that made his deformity perfect to satisfy the rule or something... Yeah, this guy (or someone like him) - http://static.espncr...et-on-Murali.html The jargon is a little thick on that page, though: The most bizarre irony in world cricket is that the brilliant Sri Lankan spinner Muttiah Muralitharan is perhaps the only Test slow bowler on Planet Earth who legitimately bowls the off-spinner's wrongun, the "doosra". Does Pakistan's Saqlain or India's Harbijhan really bowl the other one? Or is their method of delivering the doosra acheieved with a flawed action? Um, what? :-) Cheers, Scott.
Post #380,612 by Ashton 9/13/13 6:53:01 PM Reply	That's Enough.. to quell any further delving here.
Post #380,616 by pwhysall 9/13/13 8:06:48 PM Reply	Not difficult The bowler must bowl the ball, not throw it.
Post #380,618 by CRConrad 9/13/13 8:14:48 PM Reply	How many wickets must he knock down for a strike?
Post #380,623 by Another Scott 9/13/13 9:12:39 PM Reply	A googlie of them. HTH!
Post #380,558 by pwhysall 9/13/13 7:04:08 AM Reply	On A) Seems to me that the defence against the fundies (certainly for Islam) is an educated and comfortable middle-class - which is (eventually) a by-product of economic advancement. Once you get to that point, they all convert to fundamentalist CoE, and then it's cake or death.
Post #380,572 by CRConrad 9/13/13 9:35:40 AM Reply	Yeah, but when all they've got to export is sand... ...and fundamentalism, where is that educated and comfortable middle-class going to come from? As I understood it, they're not building one even now, while they still do have oil. Oh, OK, you mean as the rest of the world goes middle class, there won't be any markets for them to export it to? Yeah, let's at least hope so... But the Middle Easterners will still have an abundant supply, should any part of the world ever run out. -- Christian R. Conrad Same old username (as above), but now on iki.fi (Yeah, yeah, it redirects to the same old GMail... But just in case I ever want to change.)
Post #380,574 by mmoffitt 9/13/13 9:39:48 AM Reply	I wouldn't look for an enlightened Middle Class here. The middle class here (such as it is) cannot afford education. Our right wing governors are busy privatizing K-12 education and post-secondary educations (even at state universities) are becoming well out of reach of the middle class here. Caveat: the solution here is consistent with our government's solution for everything - have college students start their death spiral of debt to Wall Street banksters even before they graduate. That's "working" for now, but I don't think it will last.

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